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- Paul discusses the role and responsibility of each spouse in a marriage, the sanctity of marriage, and the value of singleness. He advises believers on issues concerning divorce, remarriage, and mixed-faith marriages, emphasizing that all should live in the state to which they were called when they became believers.
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32 I would like you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord’s affairs—how he can please the Lord. 33 But a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world—how he can please his wife— 34 and his interests are divided.
Mar 28, 2023 · Marriage was instituted by God and is the norm for man–woman relationships, and it is a great blessing to mankind. But it is not required for believers or for anyone else. [Paul’s] point was: If you are single that is good, and if you are married or get married, stay married and retain normal marital relations, for that is of God.
Marriage is not a place to “stand up for your rights.” Marriage is a decision to serve the other, whether in bed or out. Abstaining from sex is permissible for a period of time if you both agree to it, and if it’s for the purposes of prayer and fasting—but only for such times.
But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband. 35 I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.
When Paul speaks of the wife “submitting to” her husband, the Greek word is hypotassetai, which means “to stand behind or support, as in battle formation, with respect, reverence and love,” even as Christ has pure love for and stands behind the Church (Ephesians 5:22–25, 33).
For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive.
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In one of his greatest teachings on the subject of marriage, Paul declared the eternal doctrine that “neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord” (1 Corinthians 11:11).
